Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

When women are pessimistic about their political strength and feel hopeless about changing the conditions of their lives, it is almost as if they do not believe that democracy means the country belongs to them. But it's true.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.

The right to vote is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in the struggle for civil rights.

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.

The extension of suffrage will not forbid the supremacy of intelligence.

If you protect a person's right to vote, then he'll protect himself better than you can.

Secure to all people a free exercise of the right of suffrage and every other civil right.

A weapon that comes down as still As snowflakes fall upon the sod ;, But executes a freeman’s will, As lightning does the will of God; And from its force, nor doors nor locks Can shield you;—’tis the ballot box.

Give the woman the ballot and you will make her more important in the eyes of the world.

The continued vitality of our Constitution and the survival of each freedom it protects depend upon the right to vote and the vibrant democracy it affords us. In short, the right to vote underlies each of our other rights.

The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights.

I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

Voters do not decide issues. They decide who will decide issues.

Wherever you have votes, you have power.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

Political discussions fly over the heads of those who have no votes, and are not endeavoring to acquire them.

The consciences of the American people will not be permitted to slumber until this great constitutional right, the equality of the suffrage, equality of opportunity, freedom of political action and political thought, shall not be the mere cold formalities of constitutional enactment as now, but a living birthright which the poorest and humblest, white or black, native born or naturalized citizen, may confidently enjoy, and which the richest and most powerful dare not deny.

The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes.

Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.

The vote controls everything that you do.

If someone says, 'Democracy is a sham, those people don't speak for me... the system's rigged,' you say, 'Vote.' Someone says, 'I was making a statement by not voting,' and then you say, 'Well I can't hear it.'